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the first time in more than two . years,” They are Cpl. John and Pvt. Edward O'Donnell of East Milton, ~ Mass. John is an artilleryman "and has been overseas more than

two years, all through Africa and

Sicily. Edward has been over‘seas only a couple of months. John is 22 and Edward, 19. The first Edward knew his brother was in the vicinity was . when he saw some soldiers, wearing the patch of John's division, whine ready to take a bath at an outdoor shower the army bad set up. He asked them where the division was and then began a: several hours’ hunt for his brother. John was attending an army movie set up in a barn when Edward finally tracked him down. They sent in word for John to come out. When he got about half way out and saw who was waiting he practically knocked everybody out of their chairs getting to the back. -Their commanding officers gave them the next day off and they just roamed around with their tongues wagging—talking mostly about home,

: Another Pyle Says Hells

THAT SAME afternoon another soldier came by to say hello because his name is the same as mine. He is Pvt, Stewart Pyle of Orange, N. J. He is the driver in a car company, and now and then he gets an assignment to drive some very high officers. At least that will give him something to talk about to his grandchildren. Pvt. Pyle is married and ‘has been overseas nine

. months. Try as we might, we couldn't establish any

relationship. That might have been due to the fact that my name isn't Pyle at all, but Count Sforzo Chef Dupont D', Aragaan..

“DAVID i AUGUSTUS, joeal plant SEs for * the army air forces, has been having his troubles with _ the internal revenue department, Mr. Augustus parked

his car out in the Broad‘ Ripple business district the

other day. When he returned, he found on the windshield a sticker instructing him to . report at the federal building for “failure” to have a use tax stamp. The revenooer had overlooked the stamp, which was in a corner of the windshield, Next day, Mr. Augustus parked on a downtown parking lot, removed the stamp from his windshield and took it over to the federal building to show the revenooers, They canceled the sticker. But when Mr, Augustus’ got back to his car, he discovered one of the ever-present revenooers had been there ahead of him and placed another sticker on his windshield, which this time actually was stampless—temporarily. Mr, Augustus placed his stamp back on the windshield and, very much out of humor, threw away the second notice. A few days later, the mailman hrouglt a formal notice asking why he had not appeared. He got on the phone, and was told to take the number of his stamp to the revenue office. He did, and then was asked for the formal notice, which he had neglected to take along. At this he threw up his hands in agony and was about to go into hysterics, when the revenue office employee considerately offered to let him mail the notice in, And that's the way it stands now. Moral: ‘Don't drive without your use tax stamp showing plainly,

What's Wrong W ith the U. S.

CALVIN CHANG, of Marmon-Herrington, told the Advertising club yesterday that he is very fond of America. but in one respect he prefers China. “In China,” he said, “the husband is the boss of the household. Here in America, the wife is the boss.” You're right, Mr, Chang: the women are the bosses here. But you are unique. most of the men mever discover it, « . The Indianapolis Athletic club has closed all its @ining rooms except that on the third floor during the

Missouri Lesson’

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4$—Governor Thomas E Dewey,

Republican presidential candidate, and his runningmate, Governor John W. Bricker, came here for conference with the other 24 Republican governors at the end of a hot state primary election which seemed to offer the Republican party a {esson. " Isolationism long had a toehold in Missouri. That philosophy received an unmistakable rebuke in the defeat in Tuesday's Democratic senatorial primary of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. He was one of its apostles in the days leading up to the outbreak of war in Europe and in the tense debate before Pearl Harbor. In the ousting of Bennett Clark, son of Champ Clark, speaker of the house during the Wilson administration, there was also an element of punishment by Democratic voters for the senator's opposition to much of President Roosevelt's domestic, as well as foreign, program, This was not entirely an assertion of New Dealism among Missouri Democrats. It was a manifestation of that basic Democratic party loyalty which holds that a Demycrat should support a Democratic President, even If the voters themselves do not always approve his policies.

. It is blind, stubborn, not easily understood, but all’

the same, there it is, Complicating Factors

THE MISSOURI primary was complicated by other factors, including political feuding. But there is no

Our family sprang from a long line of Norman "milkmaid, We took the name Pyle after the Jones murder cases in 1739—January, I think it was. My great-grandfather built the Empire State building. Why am I telling you all this? : Department of wartime distorted values—the other day a soldier offered to trade a French farmer three horses for three eggs. The soldier had captured the horses from the Germans. The trade didn't come off ~—the farmer already had three horses, And—at one of our evacuation hospitals the other day a wounded soldier turned over 90,000 francs, equivalent to $1800. He'd picked them up in a captured German headquarters. The army is now in the process of looking up regulations to see whether the soldier can keep the money.

Paratroop Chaplains Get Credit Due

IN THE VERY early days of the invasion I said in this column ¢hat Capt. Ralph L. Haga of Prospect, Va. claimed to be the first chaplain ashore on D-day.|.

Well, I got into trouble over that, because he wasn’t. If I'd had any sense I would have known better myself, The first chaplains on the beachhead were those who jumped with the paratroopers and there were a batch of them—I believe 17, altogether. They were in Normandy hours before Chaplain Haga touched the beach. ) As one bunch of paratroopers wrote me, “Our chaplains had already rendered their first consolation service in France before Capt. Haga got his feet wet,” So all credit where credit is due.

One afternoon several weeks ago I went into Cher-|

bourg with an infantry company and one of the doughboys gave me two cans of French sardines they'd captured from the Germans, Right in the midst of battle is a funny place to be giving a man sardines, but this is a funny war, At any rate, I was grateful and I put them in my musette

. bag when I got back to my tent that night. I for-

got all about them. The reason I mention it now is that last night I got a hungry spell, and was rummaging around in the bag for candy or something and ran onto these sardines. They tasted Mighty good.

month of August, because of the vacation season. That is forcing some of the organizations dining there regularly to seek other dining rooms temporarily. . « « Al Rickenbacker, who is taking care of the Speedway business affairs during the war, gets lofs ‘of letters from service men asking information about the track and its records, ett. It seems that wherever Hoosiers

20, they get into arguments about the Speedway, then! As a

write back home for proof of their contention. variation, Al—he’s Eddie's’ brother—got. a letter the other day from a Los Angeles resident asking advice on building a midget racing car. The fellow explained he was going to use a washing machine motor to propel the car. Al wrote back that he wouldn't be able to advise him because no washing machine-motored jobs had been tried on the Indianapolis Speedway. Why didn't you refer him to the Maytag washing machine company, Al?

It's the Bunk

WE HATE TO BE MEAN and spoil a good story, but it's about time to debunk news stories appearing in two other Jocal papers (but not in The Times) about the city safety board buying 500 feet of “nylon hose” for the fire department. The story even was heard on a national radio broadcast. The fact is that it all started as a joke in the safety ‘board meeting, with City Purchasing Agent Edward Hereth jokingly commenting that, “We're buying some Nylon hose for the firemen.” It was just a joke, and Mr. Hereth so stated after the meeting. There's not a single thread of nylon in the fabric, So, there, girls; you're not missing out on anything. .,.. Robert Donald Frazier will have a chance to do some real “scouting” when he gets home this week-end from an outing at the Boy Scout camp. Just before he left for. eamp, his mother, Mrs. Floyd Frazier, 323 W. 30th, gave him some clothing to take to a dry cleaning shop on Iilinois st. When Mrs. Frazier went after the cleaning, she found a skirt missing. The shop record showed receipt of the waist, but not the skirt, leading to the belief Robert may have dropped it on the way to the cleaners.” So, the first thing when he gets home he's going to start knocking on every door on both sides of the street between home and the cleaners, asking if anyone found a blue polka-dot pleated skirt, How do we know? That's a secret.

on this theme. The effect was reflected in the’ poor showing by Senator Clark here in St, Louis which accounted for his defeat. Missouri is one of that string of border states which serve as a weather vane. It is reported to be nip and tuck today, Trimming on the international collaboration issue might be costly to the Republicans in November, for Tuesday's primary showed it can be whipped up into quite an issue, where there is a decided difference between candidates. The C. I. O. Political Action committee had an influence in the primary result, particularly here in St. Louis where they put on an effective registration campaign. They, too, are preaching international cooperation,

50-Year Dynasty

DEFEAT OF Senator Clark has its sad aspects. - It ends, at least temporarily, the 50-year Clark dynasty in Missouri politics, begun by Bennett's father, who almost attained the presidency. Bennett Clark's isolationism was honest and sincere, Bennett Clark fought in France in world war I and had a distinguished record. I recall a story he told me one day about an incident in that war, He went to Paris on leave, “I went out to Versailles” he said. “I walked through the palace. There on the walls I saw pictures —the Duke of Guise entering Chateau-Thierry in 1300 and something, some other military leader taking over another place in 1400 something—a place in which we had fought just recently. “I said to myself, ‘Boy, they've been fighting ever these same places for centuries!" Then I thought ‘What business has a boy from Missouri being over

SECOND SECTION

Bomb Plot Is

By Thomas L. Stokes

Chance to

(Last of

Written for

they had just discovered the

since things began to go badly on

a complete collapse of Germany's In the fall of 1943 it seemed decided to collaborate with the generals, not only during the war but ‘also as far as the execution of the Nazi post - war plans There’ was a meeting on Sept.

Pueckler, hear Pottbus, 150 miles from Berlin, in which * Field Marshals 2 "Von Rundstedt, Curt Reiss Von Kleist, Von Mannstein, Von Brauchitsch and Von Kluge met with Himmler and Martin Bormann, the latter successor to Rudolf Hess as deputy leader of the Nazi party. During this meeting they discussed ways and means of saving part of the army as well as the party machinery, after the final defeat and after an allied occupation of Germany, At that meeting it looked as though party and generals saw eye to eye on decisive issues. But each side immediately be« gan to double cross the other,

vietims of Hitler's wrath. Left to

Blomberg.

high officers against the fuehrer. the opposition of these officers ever since Hitler took power in-1933,-and of active conspiracies-against-him ever

about.

Viewed as

Frame-Up to Give Nazis

Purge Foes

a Series)

By CURT REISS

NEA Service

Hitler and his most trusted officer, Heinrich Himmler, lied when they stated ‘shortly after the bomb assault that

existence of a conspiracy of They have known of

the Russian front in October, 1941,

However, the hands of the Nazi leaders were tied because they needed the generals, particularly after the catastrophe of Stalingrad. Only the great experience of the military leaders could possibly avoid

eastern front at that time. as though Heinrich Himmler had

"FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1944

The generals, who knew better than anyone else that final collapse was approaching rapidly,

decided to carry through. their.

“original idea of dissociating, them- ; selves from Hitler,

- Generals Conniye

RT AN “preit “atista Port” Runstedt or

gan once more with the retired Gen. Ludwig Beck to work out

plans for getting rid of Hitler.’

Rundstedt, who was commander-‘in-chief of all armies in the west, was willing to play the role of Darlan or Badoglio after allied landings in France. 1 On the other side stood Heinrich Himmler and his mos t trusted helpers, S. S. Gens. Werner Heissmeyer and Fritz Kaltenbrunner, the latter director of the gestapo and successor to Reinhard Heydrich. The Nazi by now had no illusions about the outcome of the war. They knew that Germany could not win, and that the party eventually would have to go undeground. But this also meant that, the party could now get rid of the generals.

Purges are net new phenomons in Nazi history. Here are some Col. von Bredow, Gen. von Schleicher, S. S. leader Ernest Roehm, Field Marshal Werner von

right:

eT vs. The Generals . . .

“Hitler “and the high 3 army officers met frequently, but no love was lost between them. Here Gens. Wil-

helm Keitel, left, and Walther von Brauchitsch study a map of Russia with Hitler, ‘whose “intuition” .

hes a or substitute for: their s

he to a

i “time. to oe since oe Siti were pre“paring to get rid of Hitler and the entire crowd of Nazi officials. Only a few of the generals could still be depended upon by the Nazis. One was Rommel; another one Guenther von Kluge; still another one the man who had first introduced mechanized warfare, Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian; and Gens. Alfred Jodl, Karl Warlimont, and Col. Gen. Eduard Dietl. On June 23, 1944, Dietl. who was needed more than ever to defend the Finnish positions, was killed in a crash. The intelligence department of the gestapo investigated and found evidence of sabotage. i Next thing the world knew was that an assault had been made on Hitler's life. First it was said that the bomb had been ordered by “Moscow Jews” and imported from England, Then the fuehrer himself blamed a small clique of high-ranking German officers. World Must Wait, The world will have to wait until the final defeat of the Nazis before the real story of this assault can be established beyond doubt. However, from what is known so far, the following can be assumed: More than likely high-ranking German officers, opposed as they are to Hitler, had nothing to do with the bomb assault. Psychologically it would be nearly impossible. German generals, no matter how brutal and merciless

trategy. .

-.tBex. ah ot. lant - bombs. Fhe" doh“ neea co ft would

‘have been too simple for one. of-

them while talking to Hitler to take out a revolver and shoot him.

On the other hand, it is ex-

tremely likely that the bomb assault never took place in the way described and that it was a prearranged affair—pre-arranged by Himmler.

Needed an Excuse

For Himmler needed an excuse to strike at the generals. Naz history knows of more than cne such pre-arranged affair. The reichstag fire served the Nazis in getting rid of the Communists and thus attaining the majority in the reichstag. The faked plan of revolt allegedly plotted by Roehm was the cue for the blood purge of 1934, There are many indications that the purge of the generals which is going on now was planned for a long time. Field Marshal Von Rundstedt, for instance, was not relieved of his command after the bomb assault, but before. The retired Gen. Beck, first victim of the purge, was killed less than 10 hours after the assault. Within such a short time even the gestapo could not have discovered threads leading to Beck, who had been out of the army for. almost six years,

Planned Months Ahead

Further, Heinrich Himmler’s advancement to the post of a supreme commander of the Ger-

man “hinterland as well as of the = German army Which is witat he. is now, to all practical purposes— had been planned and prepared for at least six months. Last March it was decreed that his picture should be hung next to the fuehrer's in all German schools. There are more details which prove .that the Nazis did not have to “discover” a plot in order to act the way they are now acting. For example, the decree that from now on all members of the armed forces, including highest officers, use the Hitler salute—a change unimportant in itself, but which could not have been spread over the armed forces within 24 hours without ample preparation. : In short, Hitler and Himmler planned to get rid of the generals for a long time. They acted before the generals could act and have done away with all those who might ‘become dangerous to them and thé party. Now they. will try to prolong the war as long as possible, since the end of the war means their death. They will make war with all the brutality and cruelty of which only Nazis are capable, uninhibited and undisturbed by any qualms which the old-fashioned generals might have had. They willl make true their promise to leave the stage of contemporary history slamming the door so hard that centuries to come will remember it well.

$212,252,000 Crop Jackpot BARBER SHOP SONG Airmen Salute Their Dead

‘Comrades in Eerie Ritual

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 —Hoosier

farmers have hit the jackpot with a total of $212252000 in cash income from farm marketings during the first four months of 1944, the bureau of agricultural economics |

reported today. a

|} During the same period last year

the total was $191,145 000.

The BAE esiimates for the east{

north central region, which includes Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan, was reported as follows: “Cash receipts from crops were 2 per cent higher in April than in April, 1943. Income from hay was up in all states and showed an increase of 58 per cent for the region as a whole. Mostly because of a drop in Illinois, receipts from corn were 114 per cent below a year earlier for the region. Income from

gion as a whole, and showed a 16 per cent reduction.

Livestock Shows Small Gain

only a 1 per cent gain over April, 1943. Income from all meat animals except sheep and lambs showed gains in nearly all states. Receipts from poultry and eggs

potatoes was below last year in all states except Wisconsin, for the re-!

Hit in State Through April

the same period last year.

oats and truck crops were down.

poultry and eggs were down.” £39, 500,000 Income Shown

livestock and livestock $172714,000 this year and $154, 610, 000 last year.

$53,245,000 in 1944.

1942 and $709,692,000 in 1943.

cent for the region, compared with Income | from corn, soybeans and potatoes! gained somewhat, but receipts from

“Receipts from livestock and livestock products for the period Jan|uary through April were 5 per cent gréater than in 1943. Receipts from

The Januasy-April breakdown in Indiana showed a crop income total of $29,538,000 in 1944 as, compared to $36,535,000 in 1943, and products

April crop income in the state was $10,185000 as compared with $9,353,000 in 1943 and livestock $43.419000 in 1944 and $45,419,000 in 1943. So the total April income for April 1943 was $54,772,000, and

A tabulation of total receipts from farm marketings, value of home consumption and government paye ments was made by BAE for 194043. For Indiana farmers this total amounted to $332,146,000 in 1940, “Receipts from livestock showed | $438.780.000 in 1941, $613;944,000 in

They will roll back the curtain id | the days of the mustache cup and

up and down the scales at 8 o'clock’ tonight, at the Claypool hotel. | with 78 members in the local organization, the rapidly growing, national association now lists over | 4100,000 names on its rolls. Each| year the Chicago civic opera om} pany turns over one of its programs to “seven quartets from different! cities, “Dreaming.” a song that was popular when Dad was getting his first shave, “Daisies Won't Tell”, of ~11908 vintage, “Indiana Moon,” dated | 1926 and “Wabash Moon,” circa 1931, will be the close harmony fare at the meeting led by John Hanson, whose Peoria, Ill, quartet took fourth place in a recent nation-wide contest. Holman Weeks is the local president.

LA PORTE MAN ELECTED Times Special LA PORTE, Ind, Aug 4—J. P| Hutchinson of the Bastion-Morley! Co. has been elected chairman of] the La Porte Manufacturers associa- | tion succeeding R. V. D. Terry of | U. 8. Slicing Machine Co.

Up Front With Mauldin

GROUPS TO PERFORM

U. S. FIGHTER BASE, England,!

is missing or dead.

Someone grabs a table and someone

{Aug. 4 (U.P.)—This is the way it.else piles a table on top of-it and | “personal” shaving mug when the. ges at this Thunderbolt station if then the chairs go up in disorderly {Barber Shop Harmony group runs you're an airman and your friend |array until they form a sort of wickler Tower if Pisa, leaning toward

It's aifer midnight and you're the dirty white plaster ceiling and

dammed tired and

you see your.pointing toward the record of the

friend the way he was before he! dead.

went down. You see him gentle-|

Up goes a young flier, hand over

eyed and smiling, and it makes you hand, red-faced, with staring eyes.

bitter and makes you want to talk.

He climbs over hardwood chairs and

And then this thing happens to plush seats, ignoring the scars lett ;

you.

it names.

In the morning you'll laugh. by his boots: xd ‘at if or perhaps sneer at it or call But you won't at night. | lighter.

In his hand he clutches a cigaret As he crouches close to the

No one plans it. No one thinks ceiling they call out names—good much about it until it happens.! American names of boys who won't

Romania to Ship

Crown Jewels

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent BERN, Aug. 4—King Michael

| has deemed it advisable to send | | the Romanian crown jewels and | : ! names remain smoke curled against

| the white background.

many priceless art objects and documents belonging to the Romanian branch of the Hohenzollern family out of the country.

This information comes to the | . . |and why did Joe have to make that

| second pass at that dirdrome,

correspondent from a reliable source. The treasure will be entrusted, it is stated, to a member of the king's household and will be | transported fo the safety of a neutral country.

come back from the skies over France or Germany. As they call them out he writes with his torch in smeary black letters—names like

Mullins, Krueger, Ricco, Wibert—

names like Johnson and Jones— names from 20 different states and 50 different towns. Very Nostalgic When the airman climbs down the

Then the fliers stand around and talk about how tough it has been since D-day

While they talk they keep look{ing at that growing list of names. {| You see that somehow they feel | better; they've paid them a kind of

| tribute that they thought up thems | selves with no generals or medals | mixed up in it. They're proud and

dropped rather sharply throughout | the region, while receipts from dairy | products showed slight increases

doubt among experts here that the senator’s isolationism and his anti-Rooseveltism were the chief-factors,

here'?” The boys from Missouri are back over there again,

i It appears that the 22-year-old | monarch has come to the realiza-

They were the principal targets of attack by his opponent, Attorney General Roy McKittrick, and by two Bt. Louis newspapers which hammered day by day

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursday.—Yesterday morning I arrived in Boston and went a little early to the church to attend Miss LeHand’s funeral. Anyone who has Jed a busy life in which he has been indispensable to other people who are equally busy, comes to realize —when stricken ‘with an illness— that it is not one’s activities which are really important in this life. When you lay down the things you do, day by day, someone else always takes them up. The really important thing is what you are es a person, what ‘your character and your presence have meant to those you lived with, and what influence you have had on the atmosphere of your home or your environment regardless of

whether this was a restricted one, . or x. broad ane. whch iouched many lives and large

in the hearts EE a Towa roe. As these people, 0 your influence will : and activities.

and in Italy, and in the South Pacific. Tt looks this time, however, as if Woodrow Wilson finally might be vindicated. Bennett Clark has lost out,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

those around her than the many years in which she lived and worked in public life, when she did a valiant and important job, TI caught a plane back to New York City and was able to go in the afternoon to see the C. I. O. war relief office on Broadway. this in another column.

In the late afternoon I met some of the staff

and delegates back from the Chicago convention.

They were full of things they wished to tell me and I only hope I remembered them all, for the value of an. onlooker in politics lies in possessing a good memory, and in always being able to compare the

present with the past when thinking of the future.

One of the things that interested me in Charles

Michelson’s book, “The Ghost Talks,” was his extraor-

dinary memory even for small details of conversation. I recall that Louis Howe had that same kind of

memory. Mr. Michelson’s book, by “the way, seems to me

, very good book for “college students of government

I will tell you more about

generally. , “For the first four months, cash |

BYRON W. KEENE

Byron W. Keene has been elected commander of Madden-Nottingham Post 348, American Legion, succeed-~ ing George L. Freeman. Mr, Keene has been active in legion affairs for a number of years and at sometime has held almost all offices in the post. Other officers are Oscar Kreilein, first vice commander; James Dun-

lap, second vice-commander; Charles

White, finance officer; Harold Simp-

war II veteran), sergeant-at-arms, ME. Broemad ‘and O. G. Robinette

, 10 held here Aug. 12,

receipts from crops increased 11 per,

HEADS LEGION POST

Hayman, adjutant; Robert son, chaplain, and Roy Clift (world |

|

tion that dark days lie ahead for

| his country,

! Copyright, 1044, hy The Indianapolis Times | and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

AUTO INJURES CHILD

City hospital doctors treated 6-year-old George White, 1543 Comer ave, for minor injuries received yesterday when he ran from between two garages in the 1100 block on Finley ave. and was struck by a car driven by Marvin B. Miller, 1234 Finley ave. :

PLAN OPEN AIR THEATER Times Special

. EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 4—Plans|| for a huge open air theater to seat|! about 10000 people have been ap-| proved by the park board here. The theater will be situated in Mesker|

park and built with the $500,000 en-

dowment provided in the will of Plans were ‘drawn up by Edwin H. Clark,

the late George kL. Mesker. Chicago park architect. os BIG FAMILY

| WASHINGTON.—The toad famfis 15.8 bié ane ang Tie al : the world in the :

| they tell you so, | time they laugh a

Bin the daynd insult the bap tender and sometimes they say:

clean up that ceiling?”

“Sergeant, why in hell don’t you

~HOLD EVERYTHING